Collection Policy

Goal

The goal of the San Fernando Valley History Digital Library project
is to provide full, open, and equal access to a wide variety of materials
and interpretations about the socio-economic growth and cultural evolution
of the San Fernando Valley, from its earliest foundations, through the
explosive developments of the post-World War II period. It is the main
intent of the project to make these sources available to a much wider
client base than is currently being served by the Oviatt Library. When
completed at the end of the first year, the project will have digitized
a minimum of 2,400 images and related historical records and textual
documentation into the San Fernando Valley History Digital Library.

Materials Included in or Excluded from Project

The San Fernando Valley History Digital Library project assembled, digitized
and made globally available historically significant documents, manuscripts,
photographs and related graphic materials from a host of archival collections
in the Oviatt Library's Special Collections and Archives, and related
collections at the University. The project also digitized a number of
images borrowed from local historical societies. These borrowed materials
filled in the gaps to the historical record of the San Fernando Valley.

The project is primarily focusing on image material. The images must
be free of copyright restrictions or copyright permissions have been
granted by the owning institution. Not included in this category are
study photographs from another institution, unless copyright permissions
have been cleared with the owning institution; photographs that are digitized
and are mounted on another site will not be used unless permissions are
granted; photoreproductions (i.e., photocopies) will not be added unless
all originals have been destroyed.

Textual material was included if it illustrated the history and growth
of the San Fernando Valley. Newspaper clippings from major newspapers
that are still in existence, even if their name has changed, are protected
by copyright and may not be used unless permissions have been granted.
Clippings from defunct newspapers and newsletters of groups no longer
in existence may be considered.